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Vinyl's growth brings need for turntables

7:21 PM,
Dec. 1, 2012

Audio Masters in Murfreesboro, Tenn. sells and repairs turntables and has seen an increase in requests for both in the past couple years. Store manager Toney Rounsaville serviced two record players in four days one week in November 2012. That has become typical for the company that has sold and serviced turntables since 1967. Before the uptick in vinyl record sales that number was closer to one every few weeks. 'It's kind of fun,' Rounsaville said. 'I didn't realize it would come back to this degree.' Rounsaville has a turntable near the front door because he has so many people ask about them.

Written by

Jaquetta White
| The Tennessean

If walking into Grimey's Too, the expansion of the renowned Nashville record store Grimey's New & Preloved Music, feels like taking a step back in time when it opens later this year, Doyle Davis will have achieved his goal.

He's stocking the store with records, books and magazines to further cement its place as the bricks, mortar and vinyl counterpoint to the overwhelmingly digital age.

"We're doubling down on all these physical media that are supposed to be obsolete," said Davis, the shop's co-owner and self-described vinylist. "Even though it does seem to fly in the face of current ...